McKenna Roberts is a junior at Barnard College, Columbia University, studying sociology and English. She wrote this commentary in The Columbia Spectator: “While the debate regarding whether or not colleges and universities should function as spaces of apolitical higher learning continues to swirl, there is nothing about education that is apolitical. A claim of institutional neutrality serves an explicitly ideological purpose: to make invisible the power structures at work and depoliticize the deeply political functionings of elite educational institutions like Columbia.” Read the full commentary here.